RUGGED, RELIABLE STORAGE DESIGNED FOR HANDHELD CONSUMER ELECTRONICS DEVICESStorage has become a crucial element contributing to the growing power of handheld consumer electronics devices, enabling thesedevices to support more functions and applications and to store more content. Storage for handheld devices has evolved from flashmemory embedded in PDAs to removable flash-memory cards of digital cameras to tiny hard disc drives (HDDs) in MP3 players.In fact, HDD-based music players are one of the fastest-growing segments in the consumer electronics marketplace. Today, HDDsare beginning to replace flash memory in portable music players and are also a viable storage alternative for digital cameras. But notany HDD can be put into a portable handheld device. The drive must be able to withstand the environment to which portable devicesare often exposed; for example, an MP3 player strapped onto a jogger can skip because of vibrations caused by the jogger'smotions. The storage also must......
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